Ruth Howland
E229835
Ruth Howland was a daughter of Mayflower passenger John Howland, belonging to one of the early colonial families of Plymouth Colony.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ruth Howland canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1068646 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ruth Howland Context triple: [John Howland, child, Ruth Howland]
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A.
Catharine Clinton Howland
Catharine Clinton Howland was the wife of prominent American architect Richard Morris Hunt and a member of the influential Howland family of New York.
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B.
Mildred McLean Hazen
Mildred McLean Hazen was an American socialite and Washington, D.C. hostess best known as the wife of Admiral George Dewey.
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C.
Esther Stoddard Edwards
Esther Stoddard Edwards was the daughter of prominent American theologian Jonathan Edwards and a member of the influential Edwards-Stoddard New England clerical family.
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D.
Annie M. Boughton
Annie M. Boughton was the wife of American politician and first U.S. Secretary of Commerce William C. Redfield.
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E.
Hope Howland
Hope Howland was a daughter of Mayflower passenger John Howland, belonging to one of the early colonial families of Plymouth Colony.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ruth Howland Target entity description: Ruth Howland was a daughter of Mayflower passenger John Howland, belonging to one of the early colonial families of Plymouth Colony.
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A.
Catharine Clinton Howland
Catharine Clinton Howland was the wife of prominent American architect Richard Morris Hunt and a member of the influential Howland family of New York.
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B.
Mildred McLean Hazen
Mildred McLean Hazen was an American socialite and Washington, D.C. hostess best known as the wife of Admiral George Dewey.
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C.
Esther Stoddard Edwards
Esther Stoddard Edwards was the daughter of prominent American theologian Jonathan Edwards and a member of the influential Edwards-Stoddard New England clerical family.
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D.
Annie M. Boughton
Annie M. Boughton was the wife of American politician and first U.S. Secretary of Commerce William C. Redfield.
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E.
Hope Howland
Hope Howland was a daughter of Mayflower passenger John Howland, belonging to one of the early colonial families of Plymouth Colony.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Howland ⓘ |
| father | John Howland ⓘ |
| givenName | Ruth ⓘ |
| memberOf | Howland family ⓘ |
| mother | Elizabeth Tilley ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Mayflower passengers ⓘ |
| partOf | early colonial families of Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| relative |
Elizabeth Tilley
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John Howland ⓘ Mayflower passengers ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Ruth Howland Description of subject: Ruth Howland was a daughter of Mayflower passenger John Howland, belonging to one of the early colonial families of Plymouth Colony.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mayflower passenger John Howland
subject linked to:
Mayflower passenger Elizabeth Tilley